The Big Zoom from Classical Music Rocks - 10 October 2025
The free Big Zoom event is taking place on Friday 10 October 2025 at 9.30 am, 10.30 am and 1.30 pm bringing professional musicians direct to your school to perform live, beautiful and exciting classical music. You can book up to all three slots if you wish.
Enjoy a marvellous duo with Yu-We Hu on the baroque flute and Johan Lofving on the theorbo.
Please click on the video clip of a performance by them.
The content of 40 minute Zooms will include a brief explanation of the instrument, extracts of music by the great classical composers, and the possibility of some degree of interaction via chat.
Booking
Audience: Due to lower concentration levels of younger children, their Zooms are considered as being most suitable for year 2 and above. Their Safeguarding policy (see website) has been approved by the Safer Norfolk Programme.
Music Leads are asked to provide the email address for the link (to be sent to) at the time of booking. The link will be sent 14 days before the performances.
How to apply
Send the completed form (Word doc, 125 KB) to our Project Manager, Julie Atkins: [email protected], or just email Julie with these details:
- Name of School
- Postcode
- Name of Music Lead
- All three sessions (YES/NO)
- Session 9.30 am (YES/NO)
- Session 10.45 am (YES/NO)
- Session 1.30 pm (YES/NO)
- Approximate number of children
- Email address to receive LINK (one per school)
- Name of Academy Trust or N/A
- County
The only acknowledgement of your booking will be receipt of the LINK two weeks prior to the performances.
Additional event information
- The Music Lead will need to be present to monitor technology, which should be checked before the Zoom, as there is no time to make corrections on the day.
- A waiting room system is necessary. Please be in the waiting room at least five minutes in advance of the broadcast. You will be admitted on time, but late arrivals will miss out.
- Due to the number of participating schools, we will nominate one school in each Zoom to ask questions of the musicians. Please ensure that you are muted so that it doesn't affect the performance.
Please note that this Zoom is experimental. It is appreciated that on some occasions, equipment failures do occur, but at their end, they will be prepared. They hope it all works. They have reached audiences of 1,500 children in the past and hope to improve on this. As more schools sign up, Classical Musical Rocks (CMR) will not be able to deal with direct contact from schools.
To feed back about the session, please score Classical Musical Rocks' Zooms on a scale of 1 (rubbish) - 10 (brilliant) in just one short email to [email protected].
More about Classical Music Rocks
- Charity no. 1185672
- Website: cmrschoolswestnorfolk.com
- Partners: The Norfolk & Suffolk Music Hub also supported by the Norfolk Community Foundation, and the Postcode Places Trust.
- Patrons: Louis de Bernières, Lord Bellingham & Gabriella Dall'Olio
